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>From: zeleny@zariski.harvard.edu (Mikhail Zeleny)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Strong AI and panpsychism
Message-ID: <1992Feb11.003157.8708@husc3.harvard.edu>
Date: 11 Feb 92 05:31:55 GMT
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In article <1992Feb7.142932.2005@oracorp.com> daryl@oracorp.com writes:

>Mikhail Zeleny writes: (In response to David Chalmers)

MZ:
>> Bravo! having declared yourself a dualist, you are now well on the way
>> to becoming perhaps the very first Platonist ever to grace the AI
>> supporter camp!  For how do you propose to "cut the nature at its
>> joints" without inferring the Third Realm of immutable Forms that
>> determine the boundaries thereof?

DMC:
>I don't think that David Chalmers would claim to be a Platonist.
>However, I don't see any incompatibility between Platonism and Strong
>AI. It seems to me to be consistent to believe that minds are
>essentially mathematical in nature, and so therefore "live" in the
>realm of immutable forms.

Sounds OK to me, until I pause to reflect, and realize that I don't know
exactly what it means that minds are "essentially mathematical in nature".
Then again, there's the old problem of there being too many forms, with too
rich a structure on them (e.g. the real numbers), to allow for any
isomorphic mapping between them and the possible brain states...

>Daryl McCullough
>ORA Corp.
>Ithaca, NY
> 


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